Boy was I ever wrong when I was worried we’d be bored this summer! We’ve been running around like crazy people all summer long!
Just for posterity’s sake (and so everyone reading knows why we have such a hard time keeping in touch), here is our week…
Saturday
10:15 – 11:15, Shoreline, Brandon’s reading class
12:30 – 2:45, Lynnwood, Christian has Youth Hockey Day
3:00, Mill Creek, Brandon needs to be dropped off for his special Kindergarten overnighter with Uncle Andrew.
Somewhere in here Brandon needs a haircut, and Christian needs to buy a birthday gift.
Sunday
10 – 11, Church! Hopefully Brandon will be dropped off just before the service
1:30 – 3:30, Ice skating (note here that now all three kids are hooked on skating – thankfully Christian and I have our own skates now, so that’s two rentals we don’t need to pay for anymore)
5:00, Dropping off Christian for an overnight birthday party
7:00 – 9:00, Choir concert at Trinity
Monday
10, need to pick up Christian
3:00 – 3:25, Christian’s swimming lesson
4:00 – 5:00, Christian’s soccer practice
4:00 – 4:25, Brandon and Alyson’s swimming lessons
Tuesday
8:00, Drop off kids at daycare (the boys will go to a movie in the morning, and a park in the afternoon)
9:00 – 9:30, hopefully brief stop at client’s in Redmond
Hopefully will finish painting kids’ room!
3:30, Pick kids up from daycare
4:30 – 6:00, Kenmore, work for a client
Wednesday
3:00 – 3:25, Christian’s swimming lesson
4:00 – 5:00, Christian’s soccer practice
4:00 – 4:25, Brandon and Alyson’s swimming lessons
Thursday
10:00 – 11:00, Brandon to speech therapy
3:15 – 5:15, Shoreline, Christian’s reading class
Friday
8:00, Kids to daycare (no movie today, just the park)
9:00 – 1:00, Redmond bookkeeping
2:00 – 3:00, Bothell bookkeeping
3:30, pick up kids
Whew, what a week! And guess what? The following week looks much the same. Add in Kindergarten Orientation and drop the Kenmore bookkeeping, and that’s what the last week of August looks like. Oh, and add in the Fair somewhere in there too. Thankfully, when school starts, swimming will be over, and so will the twice a week trips to Shoreline for the kids’ reading classes.
Personally, here’s how I spent the summer… I got a lot done on the kids’ room this summer. Hopefully I’ll be able to post ‘completion’ pictures in the next month. Unfortunately I don’t think I have any ‘before’ pictures of just what an enormous job it has been. Bill and I also have been enjoying Netflix. We rented all of seasons 1 and 2 of Veronica Mars, and I’m SO upset that it was cancelled. Now we’ve moved on to renting Alias. The downside is that we end up staying up really late to watch ‘just one more episode’, but it’s been fun 🙂 I hired a bookkeeper to take on any new clients, which I’m really excited about. Surprisingly, I haven’t been reading much or scrapbooking at all. I hope to return to those hobbies at some point… maybe when the kids are in school all day.
